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£17.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913759063 | ISBN 10: 1913759067
The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions, are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past of racism in sport – until now the truth that dare not speak its name.
Conscious and unconscious racism ha ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781629635729 | ISBN 10: 1629635723
Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780224100458 | ISBN 10: 0224100459
The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.
1904: 'No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' - Fifa congress
A century later: 'F ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571295128 | ISBN 10: 0571295126
On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins.
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780091955625 | ISBN 10: 0091955629
On 15 April 1989 the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield: 96 people were crushed to death and another 766 injured in what later was admitted to be caused by a shocking failure by police.
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909245396 | ISBN 10: 1909245399
In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes’ bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich.
The previous October, by filling the same role at Manc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472914965 | ISBN 10: 1472914961
From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade – the beautif ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472925565 | ISBN 10: 1472925564
Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a ki ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465897 | ISBN 10: 1608465896
The people of Brazil celebrated when they learned that in the space of two years their country would host the world's two largest sporting events: the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Now they are protesting in numbers the country hasn't s ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593097 | ISBN 10: 1910593095
The remarkable story of Somali Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar.
In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Eur ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910948019 | ISBN 10: 1910948012
This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, t ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781445634869 | ISBN 10: 1445634864
"Hillsborough will be remembered as one of the biggest injustices of the twentieth century, because those who were there to protect the public turned against them in their hour of need. The power of print media was at its absolute peak at that time, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784754112 | ISBN 10: 1784754110
In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for his decade-long pursuit of this story, uncovers the eye-watering level of fraud and criminal activity at the heart of FIF ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780722 | ISBN 10: 1784780723
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games.
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-cen ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471149375 | ISBN 10: 1471149374
When FIFA awarded the tiny desert state of Qatar the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with disbelief and allegations of corruption. How had a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk and s ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630977 | ISBN 10: 1629630977
The world of sports is often associated with commercialism, corruption, and reckless competition. Liberals have objected to sport being used for political propaganda, and leftists have decried its role in distracting the masses from the class struggl ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781621068952 | ISBN 10: 1621068951
An homage to the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves, this encyclopedic, crowd-sourced compilation of essays, resources, information, and advice about the intersection of gender and bicycling covers a lot of ground—bold meditations on body parts, stories a ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780953182619 | ISBN 10: 0953182614
Despite threats from his wife, in May 2005 Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League Final. He carries the scars of thirty years as a football fan and a Liverpudlian: the 1981 riots, the Thatcher years, ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849548144 | ISBN 10: 1849548145
When Paul Canoville took to the pitch for Chelsea in 1982, he was prepared for abuse. When the monkey chanting and the banana throwing started, he wasn't surprised. He wasn't prepared, however, for the abuse to be coming from his own side.
C ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472920164 | ISBN 10: 1472920163
On May 11 1985, fifty-six people died in a devastating fire at Bradford City's old Valley Parade ground. It was truly horrific, a startling story – and wholly avoidable – but it had only the briefest of inquiries, and it seemed its lessons were not l ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119261 | ISBN 10: 1472119266
The Dark Side of British Football in the 1970s
When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: 'You'll ge ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909715165 | ISBN 10: 1909715166
The Brazilian game has become synonymous with excellence, success and beautiful, irresistible football. Supporters from every part of the globe are able to recount joyful tales about Brazil’s unmatched achievements, especially ones of World Cup glory ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907524417 | ISBN 10: 190752441x
FC Sankt Pauli – the football club in the red-light district of Hamburg; a transvestite chairman; terraces populated by punks, pimps and prostitutes; a club run by anarchists, united under the skull and crossbones flag. This is the cliché that has be ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678594 | ISBN 10: 1844678598
Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ‘recent form of barbarism’ that is the global sporting event. Forget the Olympics and consider, under Perelman’s guidance, the ledger of inequities maintained by suc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141039640 | ISBN 10: 0141039647
What happens when the games have gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come.
Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781426307614 | ISBN 10: 1426307616
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young read ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007330799 | ISBN 10: 0007330790
The incredible true story of a a football team in the United States made up of refugee children.
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement centre in the 1990s, becoming home to scores of families ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007302994 | ISBN 10: 0007302991
"It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on the struggle"(Anthony Suze, Robben Island Prisoner)
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£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781583228432 | ISBN 10: 1583228438
With contributions from some of the most well-respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China today as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olymp ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780752848778 | ISBN 10: 0752848771
Football is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It can start - or stop - wars, it can fuel revolutions or it can keep dictators in power.
Simon Kuper travelled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre eff ... more
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